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[–] 55 points 7 months ago (8 children)

for real though, the CTRL tap accessibility feature to find the cursor is a lifesaver

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  • [–] 78 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    On KDE and on MacOS, if you shake the cursor it becomes larger

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  • [–] 61 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I guess this confirms that I am a man, because I refuse to do anything except jiggle the mouse until I see it.

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  • [–] 52 points 7 months ago (5 children)
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    wiggle it until it's the size of a monitor, and if you're brave, it'll take over EVERYTHING.

    I love it that KDE didn't limit the growing of it :)

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    I had a similar matrix of screens at my old job: Seismic survey observer desk. Three rows tall, four columns wide.

    They weren't all connected to the same PC, though; If I remember correctly:

    • Top row was one PC (linux)
    • Middle row was another (linux)
    • Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)
    • Bottom right was its own (linux)
    • middle two at the bottom was windows.

    They were all connected to a Raritan KVM switch, so I used that to select which row to control. The exception was on bottom left and bottom right which had a dedicated keyboard and mouse.

    I have a picture of it somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Bottom left was its own PC (It ran msdos 6.22. Excellent OS for realtime stuff!)

    really? I used 6.22 back in the day - what's it still being used for these days?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Not sure if it's still in use today, but the above description was 2008 through 2012. Msdos was used for "gun timing", which basically amounted to extreme precision when it came to opening or shutting some solenoid valves. The computer had a GPS input and a bunch of serial outputs, and a control line (also serial).

    The control line sent instructions of which solenoid to open when, a time reference was determined by the GPS, and you can probably guess what the serial outputs were for.

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    right-click and see where a menu opens.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    KDE shaky shaky

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm confused... Cursor? Surely you control everything via keyboard?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Fooled us all. That's a tanning booth.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    I now undestand whom that KDE cursor is for?

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    Windows are too big. The whole point is to have small windows and multiple screens so you don't have to move your eyes around in their sockets in the window you're working which causes eyestrain.

    They might have well just have fewer screens and click through windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    It would be funny af if there was a way to make the computer think the screen size was infinite (just for the mouse) so you could send your cursor 20 miles away and never find it again.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    surely just using the terminal?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    And people rib me for having 3 screens. Yes yes, tell me how much cancer they are giving me per square second.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Cancer? From monitors? Is that a thing people believe? Do they think "the 5G comes from all them screens" ?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Literal doctors trying to convince me that monitors emit cancer causing radiation.

    I had to explain to a doctor what ionizing radiation was... And that's how I learned that doctors are just like every other profession. And there are just as many morons that graduated med school as morons that graduated high school (proportionately).

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Wait what? They give cancer? Outgassing or something?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I have recently pared down to 4 screens and yeah, people take seem to get great enjoyment out of giving me shit. I've been receiving this very meme image for a good while. Not sure what triggered the re-run of this one in particular.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Go to mouse l settings, make your cursor larger and change the contrast. So when the curse is black and it goes over something white and then white when it goes over black

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Where the fuck is the image? Not loading for me

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    What is this activity you call "looking for my cursor?

    On my computer, I summon my cursor.

    This ad is brought to you by the Cursor Follows Focus Gang

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    That's why I no longer code in C#.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    There's no way he ever looks at the top row.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Wiggle thing on MacOS and you'll see it. ✨ Got you covered there.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    This is a job for a tiling WM. Imagine doing this on Window$.

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